Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

People who don't count won't count.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.